Biography
Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series The Old Fox which he played between 1977 and 2016.
He was a well-known German film child star during the 1950s. A German reader reports, "Michael played in mostly melodramas--those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc (sentimental film in an idealized setting). Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear-jerkers. Two words come to mind in German. The first is "Heimatfilm". Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc. The second is "Heile-Welt-Film" meaning "intact-world-film" They were, however very popular films in Germany."
He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys. One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) in which he played a chorister in the Vienna Boys' Choir. There is an image of him, for example, on the HBC choir-film pages. Michael also played in two German films about the Trapp family: The Trapp Family (1956) and The Trapp Family in America (1958). These films were made some years before the 1965 U.S. film musical version of the Trapp films, The Sound of Music, was made. (The Broadway version appeared in 1959.) Michael played the role of Werner in the Trapp-films. (In The Sound of Music the boy's name is Kurt.) Ande like many child actors had difficulty continuing his career as an adult actor. He had problems being accepted as adult actor as he had such a youthful-looking face.
Much attention he found in the role of Jim Hawkins on Television in Treasure Island, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was broadcast on Christmas 1966 for the first time.
Ande is still acting and occasionally appears on German television.
Filmography
all 51
Movies 34
TV Shows 17
Voice 2
self 2
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Return to Go (2001)
Zur Freiheit (1987)
Dear Melanie (1983)
Dirndljagd am Kilimandscharo (1983)
Doctor Snuggles (1981)
SOKO 5113 (1978)
Polizeiinspektion 1 (1977)
Der Komödienstadel - Graf Schorschi (1977)
The Old Fox (1977)
Derrick (1974)
Die Powenzbande (1974)
Das letzte Testament (1974)
Fuchs & Fuchs & Co. (1973)
Scheibenschießen (1973)
Fußballtrainer Wulff (1972)
Der Komödienstadel - Mucki (1972)
Das provisorische Leben (1971)
Ich träume von Millionen (1971)
Der schwarze Graf (1970)
The Paradise Garden (1970)
Warum ist es am Rhein so schön? (1970)
Schwabing so, so - oder so? (1970)
Die Reiter von Padola (1969)
Finke & Co. (1969)
Der Kommissar (1969)
Pechvogel - Ein Spectaculum für große und kleine Leute (1967)
Die Schatzinsel (1966)
Hava, der Igel (1966)
Condemned to Sin (1964)
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt (1964)
Die Drehscheibe (1964)
Gewagtes Spiel (1964)
Die Grotte (1963)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1962)
When the Bells Sound Clearly (1959)
Majesty on a Detour (1958)
The Trapp Family in America (1958)
The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
El Hakim (1957)
Scandal in Bad Ischl (1957)
Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957)
Zum blauen Bock (1957)
Die Prinzessin von St. Wolfgang (1957)
Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal (1956)
The Trapp Family (1956)
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht (1956)
Holidays in Tyrol (1956)
Reaching for the Stars (1955)
Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe (1955)
Marianne, Meine Jugendliebe (1955)
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GenderMale
Birthday1944-10-05 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceBad Wiessee, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
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